340) In Gonzales, a Christian Spiritist sect filed suit against the government challenging provisions of the Controlled Substances Act that regulated the use of a hallucinogenic plant in the sect's religious practices.

His conclusion too entails a sober revaluation of traditional notions of originality and even creativity: Okri is praised highly for taking possession, re-creating and transfiguring the various sources that he uses; he is new and astonishing on account of the audacity, humour and poetic vitality he brings to bear in the effort to synthesize "African spiritist discourse" with the literary traditions of other lands which his Western education has made part of his patrimony.

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